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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and all the farm life and good country food left in; "M...Henrietta Litchfield Frederick MarryatMasterman ReadyPrint: Book
1900-1945'[report by Mrs Ward of the library at her Passmore Edwards Settlement] boys were sitting hunched up over "Masterman Ready", or the ever-adored "Robinson Crusoe"; girls w...boys at the Passmore Edwards SettlementFrederick MarryatMasterman ReadyPrint: Book
1900-1945[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have t...Margaret Wharton Frederick MarryatMasterman Ready, or the Wreck in the PacificPrint: Book
1900-1945'The book will give me the greatest delight. I am getting a bit past ?yarns? ? but I enjoyed ?Matador? because it is quite a document on Spain to day and apparently wri...Winifred Agnes Moore Margaret SteenMatadorPrint: Book
1900-1945' In Konrad's [sic] "little corner" in the living room one more book appeared on his table: Witkiewicz's "Matejko". It had been sent by my sister [Aniela Zagorska] for Ja...Joseph Conrad Stanisław WitkiewiczMatejkoPrint: Book
1700-1799'I read much, collected Extracts & translated Latin Books of physic with a view of double improvement; I studied the Materia Medica, & made some progress in Botany; I dis...George Crabbe Gilbert KnowlesMateria medica botanicaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read […] all sorts of rubbish a proposof Burns […]'Robert Louis Stevenson unknownmaterial about BurnsPrint: Unknown
1700-1799Stephen Duck's self-education by mutual improvement, as recorded by Joseph Spence in 'A Full and Authentick Account of Stephen Duck' (1731): "'He had one Dear Friend [......Stephen Duck and friend mathematical textsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I read a French novel, "Matilde", which interested me much and is extremely well written - by Mde Cottin'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Fremantle Sophie CottinMathildePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading some French books lately viz, "Mathilde" par Eugene Sue and "Les mariages de paris" par Edmond About -'Albert Battiscombe Eugene SueMathilde ou les Memoires d'une jeune femmePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 February 1844: 'We will talk of Eugene Sue. I know the "Mysteries of Paris" very well, & much admire the genius whi...Elizabeth Barrett Eugene SueMathilde, Memoires d'une Jeune FemmePrint: Book
1900-1945Heavily annotated, mainly in pencil in French (though some summary notes in English), throughout. Summary index of notes on front and back inside covers, flyleaf, half-ti...Vernon Lee Henri BergsonMatiere et MemoirePrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Mathilda? If you have, you will not tell me what you think of it, you are as cautious as Wishaw. I mentioned to Lord Normanby, that it was the book selecte...Sydney Smith Constantine Henry Phipps, Lord NormanbyMatildaPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Matilda to Jane'Mary Shelley Mary ShelleyMatildaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Read Matilda to E.'Mary Shelley Mary ShelleyMatildaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' "La Belle France" has no more pretensions to beauty/ than the majority of her daughters. Like many of/ the...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Anon]Matilde a novelPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'It had [...] been a favourite idea of my mother's that her girls should learn Latin, and she engaged an old schoolmaster living in a back street in our native town to gi...Elizabeth Missing Sewell St MatthewMatthew 2:1Print: Book
1900-1945'During these days he was reading two books with enjoyment: Lionel Trilling's Matthew Arnold and Werner Jaeger's Paideia, The Ideals of Greek Culture, which had just arri...John Buchan Lionel TrillingMatthew ArnoldPrint: Book
1850-1899' ... [over] a weekend at Aldworth ... [Margot Tennant] told Tennyson how very handsome he was, and, after his after-dinner nap, asked him to read "Maud" ... read it he d...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaudUnknown
1850-1899'Mary Gladstone ... had experiences of Tennyson reading "Maud" in 1878, in 1879, and again in 1882.'Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaudUnknown


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